I see those eastern european countries growing by leaps and bounds over the next couple of years.
Germany will cry for 20 years for allowing those countries to enter the EU. Out of the top 500 companies in Germany...I will bet that 350 of them have plans in the works for moving operations and production into the east. It may take four years...but Poland is going to wipe Germany out financially over this whole deal. The labor unions in Germany will stand there in shock as jobs disappear...and they can't blame GW...they can only blame themselves.